One rule of thumb we've taken with any tape from Nobix is to set it on the
shelf and wait. More than likely, we will get a call within a week saying
"Whatever you do, DON'T LOAD THAT TAPE!". For this year-end update, we ended
up getting three tapes. For the prior update, it was four or five. When we
updated to 6.1 last May, we were in the 'download of the day club' for a
week.

Version 6.x of the Job Rescue line is significantly faster at scanning
spoolfiles and stdlists, and can run a schedule with far fewer delays
between jobs. For that, we are pleased with it. Unfortunately, the new user
interface is about as bad as one can design ('design' being a generous term)
with no consistency from screen to screen. Our users despise it. And, as
this thread has indicated, QA has not been very good lately.

Steve Miller
Portion Pac, Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NicorIt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 09:07
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: job rescue
>
>
> Donna,
> What date is on your tape?  I was called by Nobix last
> Wednesday and the
> told me to throw away the tape I received from the dated Dec
> 2, 1999 (I
> think this was the date I tore the label off yesterday)  Then
> they sent me
> another tape dated:
> Wed. Dec 22, 1999 - This fixed a bug they found in the last one.  I
> installed it over the weekend and it works well.  I do not
> get the same
> display you are getting when I enter STATUS.
>
> Jim Kilgo
> Nicor Products, Inc.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 3:59 PM
> Subject: job rescue
>
>
> > hi all~
> >
> > i'm in the process of updating my boxes that are running job
> > rescue to the latest (? -- 6.1d) version.  i've done two so
> > far and the update seems to have gone ok.  *but* when i go
> > into status i see:
> >
> > :status
> > JobPak Status 6.1 (c) 1998 Nobix, Inc.
> > TUE, DEC 28, 1999, 12:20 PM
> > Log is 0, from SUN, 2029/12/23 00:00:00 -> present.
> >
> > 2029???  what??  i've called nobix but it seems that the
> > entire company is out for the week(!).  tech support is
> > available but they've not called back (so far...<sigh>).
> > has anyone run into this?  is this a bug?  a configuration
> > thing?  btw, i've run 'showclks' and both clocks look
> > ok.           - d
> >
> > --
> > Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
> > 925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]
> >
> > >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
>